Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #2, 0 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
Tamara - Flower cerambycids are neutral. They don't harm anything as far as I know.

And lady bugs come in all different sizes depending on the species. Once the lady beetle becomes a beetle, it is full size and won't get any bigger really. Baby lady beetles are larvae - like I showed earlier in the last thread and that TuttiFrutti showed a good picture of above - so a smaller lady beetle is just a different species.

As for predatory bugs versus plant-feeding bugs, I have tried to show the difference here. This is the only picture I have of a plant-feeding bug beak, so hopefully this will do. Plant-feeding bug beaks are generally about twice as long (at least) as the predatory bug beaks and the predatory bug beaks are about 2 to 3 times fatter or more than the plant-feeding bug beaks.